# אֶבְיוֹן (evyon) Israeli respelling: evyon. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H34. 58 Old Testament occurrences. destitute King James renderings: beggar, needy, poor (man). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/evyon-h34 ## Occurrences - [Exodus 23:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/6) — Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. - [Exodus 23:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/11) — But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field… - [Deuteronomy 15:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/4) — Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inh… - [Deuteronomy 15:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/7) — If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt… - [Deuteronomy 15:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/9) — Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil ag… - [Deuteronomy 15:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/11) — For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy… - [Deuteronomy 24:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/14) — Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land wit… - [1 Samuel 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/8) — He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit th… - [Esther 9:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/22) — As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into… - [Job 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/15) — But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. - [Job 24:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/4) — They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. - [Job 24:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/14) — The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. - [Job 29:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/16) — I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. - [Job 30:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/25) — Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? - [Job 31:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/19) — If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; - [Psalms 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/9/18) — For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. - [Psalms 12:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/12/5) — For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puff… - [Psalms 35:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/10) — All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the n… - [Psalms 37:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/14) — The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversati… - [Psalms 40:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/17) — But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. - [Psalms 49:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/2) — Both low and high, rich and poor, together. - [Psalms 69:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/33) — For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. - [Psalms 70:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/70/5) — But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying. - [Psalms 72:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/72/4) — He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. - [Psalms 72:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/72/12) — For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. - [Psalms 72:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/72/13) — He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. - [Psalms 74:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/21) — O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. - [Psalms 82:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/82/4) — Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. - [Psalms 86:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/86/1) — Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy. - [Psalms 107:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/41) — Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock. - [Psalms 109:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/16) — Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. - [Psalms 109:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/22) — For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. - [Psalms 109:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/31) — For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul. - [Psalms 112:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/112/9) — He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour. - [Psalms 113:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/113/7) — He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; - [Psalms 132:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/132/15) — I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread. - [Psalms 140:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/140/12) — I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor. - [Proverbs 14:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/31) — He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. - [Proverbs 30:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/14) — There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from… - [Proverbs 31:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/9) — Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. - [Proverbs 31:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/20) — She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. - [Isaiah 14:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/30) — And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay t… - [Isaiah 25:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/25/4) — For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when t… - [Isaiah 29:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/19) — The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. - [Isaiah 32:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/7) — The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh r… - [Isaiah 41:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/17) — When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel… - [Jeremiah 2:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/34) — Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. - [Jeremiah 5:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/28) — They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they… - [Jeremiah 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/20/13) — Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers. - [Jeremiah 22:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/16) — He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD. - [Ezekiel 16:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/49) — Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neit… - [Ezekiel 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/12) — Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath c… - [Ezekiel 22:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/29) — The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the strange… - [Amos 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/2/6) — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the r… - [Amos 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/4/1) — Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their m… - [Amos 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/12) — For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the… - [Amos 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/4) — Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, - [Amos 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/6) — That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?